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Welcome to today’s Live Rangers Report Chat. There sure is a lot to discuss lately — the team’s turnaround, and those of some of its key players, the upcoming Olympics and trade deadline, the two Yankee Stadium games, etc.

We’ll go for about two hours if the traffic keeps up. Please use a screen name when you comment, and be patient. If traffic gets heavy, your comment might not appear right away.

I was born über *blonde* and I grew my hair super long. I *cut* that hair off (side note: I had it *shaved* underneath like Jason *Newstead* of Metallica which is *METAL*) and ever since *cutting* my hair off, it has been an light ash-brown thing/color

Carp thanks for the info on Staal. I figured it had to be 6 or 7 wins. Do you think they’ll move DZ and aren’t we doing the same thing with J T Miller that we did with The Kreider last year. We’re impairing his progress. He was playing dam well b4 we got the human punching bag. He fast and makes things happen. Pouliet is really making a difference. How do we get more out t of Stepon real soon

Rob, I read the blog go time posts all the time but find them particularly valuable during games that are blacked out for whatever reason. I love to see the Weeeeeee! posts and dread seeing the lol or fug posts which usually but not always mean a goal against.

Come to think of it, we need a universally accepted term for the dreaded goal against. Drats, I think would do nicely or perhaps everyone’s fave Poop.

Zucc also had a great moment in the post game where Al pointed out that Kreider had spent the entire interview behind the camera unsuccessfully trying to get Zucc to break and he just responded with “ice cold”.

Knowing your love for game…
I heard when Bobby Fischer was in Iceland for the World Championship, he called his friend GM Olafson.The GM wasn’t at home,but his 5 year old daughter answered and spoke Icelandic. Bobby, who could not speak a word of Icelandic, excused himself and hung up. The next day he met GM Olafson and told him what the girl said so accurately that GM Olafson was able to translate it into English.
I’m lucky to remember what I had for lunch.No wonder I’m far from statistical geniuses in this place, not to mention amateur in chess.